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Bug#295006: marked as done (debian-policy: Virtual package: change mp3-encoder with music-encoder)

Your message dated Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:06:03 -0700
with message-id <[🔎] 871w3atmck.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>
and subject line Rejected: Bug#295006: Virtual package: change mp3-encoder with music-encoder
has caused the Debian Bug report #295006,
regarding debian-policy: Virtual package: change mp3-encoder with music-encoder
to be marked as done.

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Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.6.1.1
Severity: wishlist

Having no mp3 encoder in the archive, due to possible patent problems, i
believe it would be a wiser idea to have "music-encoder" as a virtual package
than "mp3-encoder".

Tools that have a Depends: entry on mp3-encoder are:

ecasound

Tools like abcde, grip, jack,... would benefit when having a simple dependency
instead of listing all the possible music encoders out there: flac,
vorbis-tools, lame, bladeenc, speex, yet-to-come musepack, ...

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

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Jesus Climent                                      info:www.pumuki.org
Unix SysAdm|Linux User #66350|Debian Developer|2.6.10|Helsinki Finland
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Kill every human on the planet?  Sounds like a good idea! But first, we
should concentrate on more immediate goals.
		--Jeffrey Goines (12 Monkeys)

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This proposal would change the virtual package name mp3-encoder to
music-encoder or audio-encoder, allowing ripping tools to depend on
music-encoder rather than the various available tools.

As mentioned in the bug, the problem is that the interface for an
audio-encoder virtual package is undefined.  Those encoder programs all
provide different interfaces and different outputs, meaning that an
encoding tool cannot usefully just depend on audio-encoder and call a
standard interface that would be provided by any package providing
audio-encoder.  They still need specific logic to support particular
programs, and hence dependencies or recommendations for those specific
programs.

I am therefore rejecting this proposal.  (It may separately be a good idea
to clean up other virtual packages that have similar problems, but that's
outside the scope of this particular bug.)

If you disagree with the rejection of this proposal for reasons that
weren't raised in the prior bug discussion, please raise them in this bug.
If you disagree with the rejection of this proposal for reasons already
raised in the bug, the path of appeal for a Policy proposal rejection is
to the tech-ctte.  See http://www.debian.org/devel/tech-ctte for how to
make an appeal to the tech-ctte.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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